Monday, May 18, 2009

just another day

Here are a few pictures from our progressive dinner yesterday.The temperatures were a little too cool and breezy but it was an otherwise spectacular day. Great food, great fun, wonderful hospitality from our hosts.

Today looks to be another stellar spring offering. Deep blue sky, crisp light, and although chilly, the promise of the desire to close one's eyes and take many deep breaths. I don't even need to suggest smiling, I can tell you're already doing that at the very thought!

Ken has departed on what he anticipates being a ten-day fishing trip. The fishing and the change of scenery (and beautiful, at that) will do him good. It already feels strange that it's so quiet at home, but I suspect I will adjust!

There will be no rest for the weary while he's gone. I will need to cut the grass today or tomorrow, and for sure today I will bleach/shampoo the carpet. That probably sounds strange, but when we had to do a parvo clean last year we discovered that bleach is amazing as a rug cleaner (properly diluted, of course!)

And now I've got dogs to feed. One down, two to go! Blessings on your day!

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Who am I?

This Gentle Yankee has returned home to Connecticut after 17 years among the lovely rolling hills of middle Tennessee. A priest by calling, soul food includes love for photography, writing, cooking, dogs, all things Scottish, and a deep appreciation for the friends and family who inspire smiles and through whom I experience grace.

Reach out and touch

Give me a hand!

Showing the love, sharing the fight.

The Daily Puppy

The Virgin of the Passion

Take it to Publix!

Publix recycles styrofoam: egg cartons, meat trays, and so on. Click the cup to find out more about recycling this environmental hazard!

(in)courage

gems

From the 2003 memorial service for slain reporter Daniel Pearl (directed to Daniel Pearl's father):

"We are here to assert the Islamic conviction of the moral equivalency of our Abrahamic faiths. If to be a Jew means to say with all one's heart, mind and soul, 'Sh'ma Israel, Adonai Elohenu, Adonai echad; Hear o Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One,' not only today am I a Jew, but I have always been one, Mr. Pearl."

"If to be a Christian is to love the Lord our God with all of my heart, mind and soul and to love for my fellow human beings what I love for myself, then not only am I a Christian, but I have always been one, Mr. Pearl. We are here especially to seek your forgiveness and that of your family for what has been done in the name of Islam."Imam Feisal Rauf

There are many things to be grateful "for" but, as I ripen with the seasons of life, the many reasons blend into a sacred mystery. And, most deeply, I realize that living gratefully is its own blessing.Michael Mahoney

“Give me a candle of the Spirit, O God, as I go down into the deeps of my being. Show me the hidden things, the creatures of my dreams, the storehouse of forgotten memories and hurts. Take me down to the spring of my life, and tell me my nature and my name. Give me freedom to grow, so that I may become that self, the seed of which you planted in me at my making. Out of the deeps I cry to you, O God.”--Prayer at night by Jim Cotter

prayers this week:

--for the people of Haiti and Chile...

--for Ken: health, vocational guidance, healing and peace

--for Barbara S., experiencing multiple health issues

--for those serving in the armed forces at home and abroad, and for the victims of war